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          <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="task-tags" name="task-tags"></a>Task
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    <p>In this section, you can specify a list of keywords that act as markers for tasks inside
    comments in your Perl code, i.e. tags that mark the beginning of a task entry.</p>

    <p>By default, the words <code class="literal">TODO</code> and <code class=
    "literal">TASK</code> mark the beginning of a task.</p>

    <p>Check the <span class="guilabel">Ignore Case</span> option if you want EPIC to recognize
    task tags case-insensitively, e.g. <code class="literal"># todo my task</code>.</p>

    <p>If you select <span class="guilabel">Allow whitespace</span>, task tags do not need to
    follow a comment sign (<code class="literal">#</code>) directly, e.g. <code class="literal">#
    TODO my task</code> instead of having to write <code class="literal">#TODO my task</code>.</p>

    <p>See <a class="xref" href="ch05s07.html" title="Task Markers">the section called “Task
    Markers”</a> to see how to use Task Tags in the Perl Editor.</p>
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